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AIDS And HIV Tuberculosis
Coinfection Does Not Appear To Augment TB Infectivity
November 19th, 2001
by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Tuberculosis from patients coinfected with HIV is not usually more infective than tuberculosis from HIV negative patients, according to researchers in Italy. Mario Cruciani and colleagues at the Center for Preventive Medicine-HIV Screening Center in Verona and the University of Genoa's Institute of Infectious Diseases conducted a retrospective study to determine "if the relative infectiousness of patients with tuberculosis is enhanced by coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)". The researchers found no evidence that exposure to HIV patients with drug-sensitive tuberculosis was more...
Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-11-19)
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